Uncle_Tush

journalist. communications specialist.

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

Pfizer made $37 billion off its Covid vaccine last year, more than the GDP of 120 countries.

Moderna founders made Forbes’ list of richest people.

Yet only 10% of people in low-income countries have been vaccinated.

And Covax—the global dose-sharing initiative—is out of money.

[Blanshe Musinguzi @Johnblanshe_m]

Uganda is behaving like NUP. It went to Hague and argued this case but after losing, it is dismissing ICJ as a Kangaroo court.

[The Africa Report @TheAfricaReport]

Can #Africa be part of the climate goals? “Africa can’t sacrifice its future prosperity for Western climate goals” while it make the transition..."meaning Africa will have to use fossil fuels as it makes the transition” says #Uganda's Museveni.

https://t.co/lN0eNvY5SS

[Blanshe Musinguzi @Johnblanshe_m]

“We are going to Bunyoro (oil region) to mobilise local resistance by informing them of what is about to befall them,” @BrianAtuheire told me as climate activists vow to continue fighting EACOP after FID signing. https://t.co/mnj0rRzSXv

[Uncle_Tush @Ed_Tushabe]

@addy_dian @tigushxmwv 😅

[MR TONY @ryanmurray1000]

@SkySportsNews Luis Suarez was fined £40,000 for racially abusing Patrice Evra.

Kurt Zouma was fined £250,000 for animal abuse.

150k petition signed for him to go to jail. Vitality has suspended their sponsorship deal with West ham.

No better way to define Racism.
Can you imagine

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

South African doctor Angelique Coetzee, one of the first scientists to discover the Omicron variant, says she was pressured by scientists and politicians from around the globe to make the virus SOUND WORSE than it actually is.
https://t.co/Q9mqAwOMx4

[Eric @amerix]

My three favourite Ugandan music

1. Bei Kali - Chameleon

2. Jamila - Chameleon

3. Shida za dunia - Chameleon

🔥

[Samwise Gamgee @Sambannz]

Gov't paid Ugx 87,700,000,000 for deemed/unconsumed electricity power in 2021.

Deemed energy is electricity that is available for dispatch by independent power producers but isn't dispatched due to poor/weak distribution infrastructure

[Vanguard News Uganda @VanguardNewsUg]

A wild crocodile in Indonesia who was trapped in a tyre for more than five years has been rescued, freed from its rubber vice and released back into the wild, officials and residents said Tuesday.
#VanguardUpdates
Via @AFP

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

China has now exported cocoa to Europe. Apparently, they have grown 2 billion trees over the last 6 years, using agronomists from Ghana, paying them $3,800 or so per month /2/2
https://t.co/RKzIDRZFhh

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Ghana panics after China begins exporting cocoa beans. They’ve machines that peel cocoa straight from harvesting. Someone notes; “Africa has produced cocoa for nearly 150yrs and all…farmers have done was to marry more wives & bear more children to help peel cocoa pods” /1/2

[AIFE @aifeuganda]

A new report that covers community Land rights, indigenous peoples & biodiversity conservation. Though it's An Asian report it's a resource for the Africans to learn as they influence policy & practice. https://t.co/nfvREHLt2R @RightsResources

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

24-year-old Nigerian woman Olanipekun Irenimofe arrested and thrown behind bars for buying a pregnancy test kit and contraceptive from a pharmacy. A policeman asked her why she was having sex. Always something new & strange under the Najia sun!😳
https://t.co/0lvdJebuCM

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

I see Cameroon's President Paul Biya returned briefly from Europe to be at the #AFCON2021 Championship match. Once again, we would like to thank him for not eating all the money; he left a good amount for quite a successful tournament and avoided embarrassing the continent.

[BOBI WINE @HEBobiwine]

He was Walugembe Mukaabya, later named Mutesa 1 after he reformed. It's his prime minister who was Kayiira Ssentamu Salongo Mumazi wa bbanja (son of Nabembezi), later named Kamalabyona, a reformist katikiro. He is my great great great grandfather. He's buried in Senge Wakiso.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Number of countries that participated in the 2021 Olympics in Japan - 205.

Number of countries participating in the 2022 Winter Olympics in China - 91.

Says it all.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

A sculpture of Algerian military hero Emir Abdelkader was vandalised on Saturday in central France, hours before it was inaugurated.
https://t.co/l0WhsEM9TW

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

We learn an old lesson taught in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah; “It is only the story...The story is our escort; without it, we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story; rather, it is the story that owns us” #AfricaMyths 3/3

[David Llada ♞ @davidllada]

Last May, Phiona Mutesi, the real person that inspired the “Queen of Katwe” movie, graduated with Bachelor’s of Arts and Management Degree from Northwest University. She is now a Business Strategy Analyst at @Microsoft.

The girl from Kampala went a long way! 🙌 #womeninchess